| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 1:19 |
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 06:17:37 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:>Jeff Jones scripsit: > >> Wouldn't [sp@idR] be "spiter", not "spider"? I thought Canadian Raising >> applied only before an originally voiceless consonant. > >That's what's funny: "spider", like "writer", seems to have underlying /t/ >for such speakers.Hmm... how then would you explain [m@wT] : [sawT] ?